Where Will You Make Your Impact?

Understand The World. Shape Your Future.

From climate resilience to global justice, NUS Geographers learn from today’s problems to design tomorrow’s solutions. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates physical and human geography, students examine real-world challenges across local, regional, and global contexts. Grounded in research and practice, NUS Geography equips learners with the critical and applied skills needed to shape more equitable and resilient futures.

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Climate Change

How do we respond to a warming world?
Analyse climate impacts and adaptation strategies to drive solutions in policy, planning, and environmental consultancy.

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Sustainable Development

How can we live well on a damaged planet?
Evaluate and design pathways for balancing growth, equity, and environment to shape sustainable futures across public and private sectors.

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Globalisation & Inequality

Is there hope for the future?
Examine how global flows of power, trade, and culture create uneven geographies, opening pathways into public policy, urban and corporate consultancy.

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Our Everyday Worlds

How do we create meaningful worlds for ourselves and others?
Explore how identities, practices, and cultures shape everyday spaces and places, building skills for careers in planning, community engagement, marketing and project management.

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Geospatial Intelligence

Want to see the world in 4D?
Apply spatial analysis, mapping, and data visualisation to solve real-world challenges in industry, government, and academia.

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The Geographical Sciences

Want to shape the world, literally?
Study Earth’s dynamic systems to build skills in analysis and field research, leading to careers in environmental consultancy, resource management and conservation, and sustainability planning.

News & Happenings

NUS Geography Now

The Straits Times features Dr Nawaz’s expert insights on ground tremors felt in Singapore following the Sabah earthquake on February 24, 2026.

Why is Rwanda often described as the “Singapore of Africa”? In a commentary published in Lianhe Zaobao, Assistant Professor Allen Xiao examines the landlocked East African nation’s development vision, governance strategies, and urban transformation, while outlining the key differences between Rwanda and Singapore. The piece offers insights into how geographical imagination shapes urban planning and reflects on what Rwanda’s trajectory and vision reveal about pathways to national development in a changing global landscape.

When seniors live alone, it doesn’t mean they are lonely: Professor Elaine Ho and Associate Professor Feng Chen-Chieh, together with Associate Professor Vincent Chua (Department of Sociology & Anthropology), challenge the idea that solo living equates to social isolation.

This is an extension of an earlier op-ed, “Seniors are taking the kampung spirit beyond the neighbourhood”, where they highlight how older adults actively cultivate connection, care, and community in spatially dispersed ways.

Upcoming Events

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Field Studies 2026 - Official Registrations Open!

GE3230A is a 5-week, 8-unit overseas field course conducted in Southeast Asia during Special Term 1 (12 May - 18 June 2026). Students interested in enrolling can officially register for the course via the link below.

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Ben Anderson
Seminar

Too Much, Too Little: The Politics and Cultures of Intensity in Crisis Times, by Professor Ben Anderson, Durham University on 3 March 2026, 2.30pm, Research Division Seminar Room, NUS AS7 #06-42.

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Seminar

Radical Care-work, Critical Pedagogy and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting in West Berlin, 1968-1977, by Professor Alex Vasudevan, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford on Monday 16 March 2026, 9.30am, Geography Seminar Room, AS2 #03-02.

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June 11, 2025

Prof Dariusz Wójcik clinches prestigious Royal Geographical Society Murchison award for geographical excellence

Professor Dariusz Wójcik (NUS Geography) was recognised for his body of publications which has established geography “as a key discipline for the study of money and finance”.

June 4, 2025

Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow Forest Carbon Transition Risks in Southeast Asia   The Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is seeking a talented and motivated Research Fellow to join a dynamic interdisciplinary team within the Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia (CGSEA) project. As nations and corporations commit to …

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June 2, 2025

Me-Carnival 2025: A day of hope, inclusivity and inspiration

By third-year student Ms Elyana Syazana Mohd Ridwan (NUS Geography)

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